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Ponte City (Paperback)
Norman Ohler
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R170
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In the early 1990s, Lucy moves from Soweto to Ponte City in
Johannesburg. Once white society's architectural showpiece for
luxurious living, Ponte is now a teeming hive of newly liberated
people, who have come to seek wealth in the city of gold. What they
find is a bitter struggle for survival, and the decaying building
echoes their dreams and terrors. Ponte is reputed to be the most
dangerous apartment complex in the world. Lucy meets a charismatic
gangster, who persuades her to fly to the USA as a drug courier,
with disastrous results. Years later she comes back to Ponte City.
Her story is followed by Roman Kraner, a reporter for Hustler in
Berlin. He finds that Lucy has an account to settle, and her quest
turns into a struggle for life or death.
A New York Times bestseller, Norman Ohler's Blitzed is a
"fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the
Third Reich" (Washington Post). The Nazi regime preached an
ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler
reveals in this gripping history, the Third Reich was saturated
with drugs: cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines,
which were consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives
to German soldiers. In fact, troops were encouraged, and in some
cases ordered, to take rations of a form of crystal meth--the
elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the
high even help to account for the breakneck invasion that sealed
the fall of France in 1940, as well as other German military
victories. Hitler himself became increasingly dependent on
injections of a cocktail of drugs--ultimately including Eukodal, a
cousin of heroin--administered by his personal doctor. Thoroughly
researched and rivetingly readable, Blitzed throws light on a
history that, until now, has remained in the shadows. "Delightfully
nuts."--The New Yorker
A Daily Telegraph History Book of the Year 'An astonishing story...
brilliantly told' Antony Beevor 'Gripping... Will appeal to anyone
who relishes Ben Macintyre's tales of wartime espionage and cryptic
codes.' Sunday Telegraph Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a
young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining in the
prow of a passing boat. Their eyes meet - and one of history's
greatest conspiracies is born. Harro Schulze-Boysen had already
shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas
Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and
soon the two lovers were leading a network of antifascists that
stretched across Berlin's bohemian underworld. Harro himself
infiltrated German intelligence and began funnelling Nazi battle
plans to the Allies, including the details of Hitler's surprise
attack on the Soviet Union. But nothing could prepare Harro and
Libertas for the betrayals they would suffer in this war of secrets
- a struggle in which friend could be indistinguishable from foe.
Drawing on unpublished diaries, letters and Gestapo files, Norman
Ohler spins an unforgettable tale of love, heroism and sacrifice.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'The most brilliant and fascinating
book I have read in my entire life' Dan Snow 'A huge
contribution... remarkable' Antony Beevor, BBC RADIO 4 'Extremely
interesting ... a serious piece of scholarship, very well
researched' Ian Kershaw The Nazis presented themselves as warriors
against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping
bestseller reveals, the entire Third Reich was permeated with
drugs: cocaine, heroin, morphine and, most of all,
methamphetamines, or crystal meth, used by everyone from factory
workers to housewives, and crucial to troops' resilience - even
partly explaining German victory in 1940. The promiscuous use of
drugs at the very highest levels also impaired and confused
decision-making, with Hitler and his entourage taking refuge in
potentially lethal cocktails of stimulants administered by the
physician Dr Morell as the war turned against Germany. While drugs
cannot on their own explain the events of the Second World War or
its outcome, Ohler shows, they change our understanding of it.
Blitzed forms a crucial missing piece of the story.
A Daily Telegraph History Book of the Year 'An astonishing story...
brilliantly told' Antony Beevor 'Gripping... Will appeal to anyone
who relishes Ben Macintyre's tales of wartime espionage and cryptic
codes.' Sunday Telegraph 'A detailed and meticulously researched
tale about a pair of young German resisters that reads like a
thriller.' New York Times 'Deeply engaging, enticingly written and
extremely affecting.' Philippe Sands, Spectator Summertime, 1935.
On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses
a woman reclining in the prow of a passing boat. Their eyes meet -
and one of history's greatest conspiracies is born. Harro
Schulze-Boysen had already shed blood in the fight against Nazism
by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind
romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading
a network of antifascists that stretched across Berlin's bohemian
underworld. Harro himself infiltrated German intelligence and began
funnelling Nazi battle plans to the Allies, including the details
of Hitler's surprise attack on the Soviet Union. But nothing could
prepare Harro and Libertas for the betrayals they would suffer in
this war of secrets - a struggle in which friend could be
indistinguishable from foe. Drawing on unpublished diaries, letters
and Gestapo files, Norman Ohler spins an unforgettable tale of
love, heroism and sacrifice.
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